Post by ana on Jun 6, 2009 18:38:30 GMT -5
It was often said that the world would end in 2012, that the sun would only shine for twelve minutes a day, and all would be submurged under water by the rapid melting of polar ice caps. Now, in the year 2057, the only things humans can take credit for are lying, violence, and errors. None of that happened, but the problem at hand became much, much worse.
Despite many attempts to prevent it, the war in the Middle East sparked a third World War as world leaders scrambled to claim their "rightfully owned" natural resources after a sudden scare that the end of the world and the worst of global warming were near. Of course what started as a simple-minded race for the most land, resources, and supplies, turned into something more complex, and each country, desperate for survival turned to others for allies. With the world split in half, on opposing sides, and the countries involved in the war in the Middle East refusing to step down, things only escalated. The world was once again brought into a World War, and even worse, a Global Holocaust.
As the war intensified, governments competed for the strongest and deadliest weapons. With the little time given, and the race for new weapons intensifying, scientists began to use the deadliest chemicals to create nuclear bombs. On April 7, 2034, the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb, and the explosion left devastating results.
Almost like the shot heard around the world, the nuclear bomb, accidentally dropped in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on a last-minute transportation to France, created vibrations felt around the world for almost a week. The radiation and dangerous chemicals, as well as smoke, debris, and the horrifying scarcity of food, water and shelter, killed approximately 100 million people within only a month. The rest would slowly die as the years went on, passing the chemical infection from one to another.
The death toll by April 7, 2044, about ten years later was an astounding 4.7 billion people.
Or so they thought.
What exactly did those chemicals do to someone? Scientists didn't live long enough to find out. But they certainly didn't kill you. They only mutated you.
This accidental man-made mutagen passes from the infected to humans through blood. If you're bitten, you're infected. In some people, the sickness isn't evident, or it only moves slower, leaving them vomiting for days at a time, but still just as harmful. It will kill them all the same. In others, the unidentified sickness, known as IT, created a super species known as THEM: also known as the undead. IT shutdown their organs, but somehow transformed humans into a type of blood-hungry, disturbed zombie species, who hunt and kill not only humans but also themselves. They often travel in packs, and anyone or any zombie outside of it is a target. They can be seen during the day, but humans are most often attacked at night when they're sleeping. So most humans sleep during the day, or sleep lightly, because they know the odds are against them. Almost nothing they can do can kill a zombie.
With well over half of the world's human population extinct, humans are forced to travel together, and relocate every so often, hiding their trails of expedition with chemical liquids as not to allow any zombie or zombies follow them. But even then, they are never sure who their true friends or enemies are. Humans will do anything at this point for food and water, although plenty of abandoned grocery stores have been left behind. And not all infected humans are skin-rotting zombies, and not all zombies have reached a skin-rotting stage.
The world is inarguably at a stage of turbulence and turmoil, and a plan for recovery isn't even in site. There are blood-thirsty zombies, and survivors with hidden intentions, a destroyed planet, and a regressing atmospheric state. In the end, there are truly haud superstes: NO SURVIVORS.